Projection distortion

A quick fix to a map today, courtesy of Ed Hawkins over at better figures-approved blog Climate Lab Book.

Ed asked “When will we reach 2°C?“, and posted this great map, showing areas of the world that have risen already by 2°C* in the last century or so.

There is a nice use of appropriate colour palettes here, in my opinion. Red and blue make sense for warming and cooling, and the threshold is clearly marked in the shift to purple, perhaps in a cheeky reference to the “Australia so hot it needs new colours” story. Also, we can’t see any green, can you?